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This article delves into the emotions and feelings of product experiences and explores how they impact purchasing decisions. In addition, it considers how to measure emotional responses to design products that meet consumers’ emotional desires.

Building Product Experiences that Deliver on Consumers’ Emotional Desires

This article delves into the emotions and feelings of product experiences and explores how they impact purchasing decisions. In addition, it considers how to measure emotional responses to design products that meet consumers’ emotional desires.

The full potential of these concepts could be tapped into by integrating mindfulness practices into daily skin care routines. This might involve combining mindfulness exercises with skin care rituals to enhance both mental well-being and skin health.

Industry Insight: Mindful Beauty and AI to Enable It

Psychodermatology, mindful beauty, neurocosmetics and AI are among today’s hottest concepts in cosmetics. Here, Zuo Jinhui, Ph.D., of Shanghai Pechoin Daily Chemical Co., shares insights on these topics from his award-winning paper and personal accounts.

Mind-body concepts return us to one fundamental understanding about beauty: perception is everything. This extends beyond a consumer’s perception of product efficacy or sensory experience; it reaches into the mind’s eye of the beholder.

Editor' Note: Mind’s Eye of the Beholder

This issue explores mind-body connections; from perceived age, health and beauty, and psychological shift in "anti-aging," to emotional product desires and plant stem cells for skin revival. As a bonus, it looks to solutions for hair and scalp health.

Industry Insight: Holistic Beauty – Where Psychodermatology and Ayurveda Meet

Is psychodermatology the new ayurvedic skin care? How do these concepts align with holistic beauty? These ideas and others were explored with Shilpi Jain, an R&D scientist and founder of Skinveda. Following is an adapted transcript from the interview.

Dermatologists view sensitive skin as characteristic of all skin diseases. Common conditions that embody sensitive skin include eczema, atopic dermatitis, seborrheic dermatitis, rosacea, cosmetic intolerance syndrome and psoriasis.

Characterizing and Interpreting Sensitive Skin — Plus 9 Tips to Formulate for It

This article explores, from a dermatologist’s perspective, the basic characteristics of, certified products for and perceptions of sensitive skin, among others. It also outlines formulation considerations for this growing market.

The connection between diet and the skin has long been known, but new research points to the connections between skin and gut health for a range of issues, including acne, atopic dermatitis, eczema and psoriasis.

Gut Health as Skin Health: Ingredient Trend Tracker

Holistic wellness trends and emerging science are intersecting, providing new innovation targets for beauty products and claims.

Sensitive and compromised skin (tattooed, photoaged, etc.) are a major focus of this issue, as well as their holistic care and protection. This month also uncovers hidden innovation in scale-up and production for cosmetic manufacturing.

Editor's Note: Sensitive Skin and Hidden Innovation

Sensitive and compromised skin (tattooed, photoaged, etc.) are a major focus of this issue, as well as their holistic care and protection. This month also uncovers hidden innovation in scale-up and production for cosmetic manufacturing.

A report published in 2023 in Nature Microbiology highlighted human microbiome myths and provided explanations for them by experts in academia. With surging interest in this field – the skin microbiome, in particular – this article collects responses of our own to these myths, from cosmetic industry experts.

9 Microbiome Myths Debunked by Industry Experts

A report in 2023 in Nature Microbiology featured human microbiome myths debunked by experts in academia. With surging interest in this field for personal care, we asked our own cosmetic industry experts to comment; following are their responses.

If the skin is viewed as an ecological landscape, it can be divided into roughly three different regions with unique environmental characteristics: dry, moist and sebaceous regions.

Defining Moment for the Skin Microbiome: Interpreting Expressions and Misconceptions

This manuscript aims to dispel some misconceptions surrounding the microbiome as well as properly define the nomenclature. It also seeks to instill an appreciation for the magnitude of the ongoing research and what is yet to be revealed.

Our latest issue melds together ideas around the skin microbiome and skin health, among others.

Editor's Note: Skin Health and Microflora Merge

When it comes to the skin and microflora, it is difficult to detangle human vs. third party activities to maintain skin health. Reflecting this, our latest issue merges ideas around the skin microbiome and skin health, among others.

Royal jelly is very good for the skin and the immune system. It's packed with organic acids, proteins and special enzymes.

Bee-based Beauty for Skin Health and Immunity

Bees have been busy carrying on alongside us for millennia. The Ancients used their products for food, medicine and more. Here, Asli Samanci, Ph.D., managing partner at Bee & You SBS Americas, Inc., explored with us the benefits of bee products for skin.

By boosting NAD+, called the skin’s “longevity molecule,” RejuveNAD is able to to optimize cellular processes to simultaneously address “at least” five of the 12 hallmarks of aging, including mitochondrial dysfunction, cellular senescence, loss of proteostasis, epigenetic alteration and genomic instability.

The Beauty Ingredient Agenda: Longevity x Anti-aging

The recently decoded 12 hallmarks of aging provide exciting new anti-aging targets for R&D and new claims for marketing.

AI holds massive potential to research and design personalized, multisensorial products.

AI-powered, Personal Multisensory Experiences to Lead Future Beauty

There's a bigger picture behind product sensory experiences encompassing sustainability, personalization, inclusivity and multisensory input — potentially powered by AI. These are revealed by industry experts and Future Market Insights, described here.

Glutathione is one of the body’s primary antioxidants, protecting cells from oxidative stress and the damage caused by free radicals.

Glutathione: A Natural Ingredient With More Cosmetic Benefits Than You Think

Glutathione, a tripeptide composed of the amino acids glutamic acid, cysteine and glycine, is a powerful antioxidant naturally occurring in the human body.

Mood-boosting technologies, a focus on longevity vs. anti-aging, and other trends are set to reshape beauty innovation in 2024 and beyond.

2024 Ingredient Trends Decoded

Longevity, calm beauty, emotionally engaged innovation and more are setting the agenda for the year to come.

AI in product development, waste-free beauty, advanced delivery and microbiome-friendly sensitive skin care are among the latest waves in beauty — and the focus of our latest issue.

Making Waves in Beauty

AI in product development, waste-free beauty, advanced delivery and microbiome-friendly sensitive skin care are among the latest waves in beauty — and the focus of our latest issue.

Ingredients that are typically seen in facial care products, like hyaluronic acid and niacinamide, are finding their way into body care formulations.

Body Beauty: Biotech, Microbiome, Mood-boosting, Sustainable, Blue, Healthy and More

This article gives us the numbers from Kline on growth in the current anti-cellulite and body care market. It also provides insights from several industry experts on current and future directions for this market.

The transformative power of AI in beauty R&D is undeniable. While consumers may only interact with the final product, behind the scenes AI is revolutionizing every step of the product development process.

Exploring the Deep Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Modern Beauty

Applications for AI for beauty have emerged in everything: from product advice and trials/sampling to ingredient discovery, formulation optimization and more. This article gives an overview of these applications to show just how far the industry has come.

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